Tech-savvy politician N Chandrababu Naidu too fell in social media fake news trap. He tweeted a 2015 September photo of Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) workers agitation in Telangana’s Nizamabad district as if it happened now in Andhra Pradesh. The original protest was against the K Chandrashekar Rao government in Telangana. Naidu got carried away that it happened in Andhra Pradesh.

Naidu posted two pictures with ‘Then’ and “Now’ captions. The first picture shows ASHA workers performing milk bath to YS Jagan photo for promising to increase their salaries. The second picture shows ASHA workers carrying the government for funeral. Naidu commented that this is the fate one would meet for failing to keep promises. However, the government earlier this week issued orders increasing ASHA workers salaries from Rs 3,000 to Rs 10,000 a month.

While netizens had good time trolling Naidu, ruling YSR Congress Party too lashed out at the former CM for ‘misleading’ the people with fake content.

YSR Congress Party political affairs committee member, Ambati Rambabu said, “Chandrababu Naidu has been shamelessly carrying out false propaganda against Jagan and his administration. His latest tweet is a part of it. He picked up 2015 (September 29) picture of ASHA workers protest in Telangana (Nizamabad) and posted it as had happened in Andhra Pradesh now,” he said.

Naidu deleted his August 8 tweet following the trolling on social media, mostly by the YSR Congress followers.

As CM, Naidu several times expressed concern over the circulation of fake news and also the addition to social media. He called for judicious use of the internet and mobile facilities.

Chandrababu Naidu and his son Nara Lokesh too were victims of misinformation campaign on social media. Recently, Lokesh lashed out at the ruling party for posting a silly comment from a duplicate handle showing as his.